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Not All Smokers Die Young: A Model for Hidden Heterogeneity within the Human Population

The ability of some individuals to reach extreme old age in the presence of clearly high exposure to damaging factors may signal an innate biological advantage. For this study we used data on 4,655 current and never smokers, ages 50 and above, from NHANES III to examine whether long-lived smokers re...

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Autores principales: Levine, Morgan, Crimmins, Eileen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3919713/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24520332
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0087403